How are you supposed to find out what’s going on in the EU? It’s a damned hard task: byzantine procedures and a multitude of complex websites. So it was sad today to read that one of the only websites dedicated to this task – IPPRO MEP – is suffering financial […]
So the Belgian Minister of Defense wants to go an get pissed in New York at the expense of the state, travelling there for a meeting that was not actually due to happen. As far as I’m concerned that’s not acceptable behaviour. Problem for him, advantage for the rest of […]
Are you sick of having a useless and smug President of the European Commission? Someone that has stood by as 3 countries have voted No in referendums on EU questions? Think it’s time for a bit of democracy to determine how the head of Europe’s executive is selected? Well essentially […]
It was nasty accident. Some teenagers were digging tunnels in sand dunes in West Wales, one of them was in the tunnel, it collapsed, and the boy died. The coroner in the case has suggested that signs be put at the entrance to beaches warning that playing with sand is […]
So Welsh has been used for the first time in a meeting of the Council of the EU today. Woo hoo. Let’s all jump up and down and beat the nationalist drum! Ordovicius is happy and Alun Ffred Jones who spoke Welsh at the Culture Council stated “Welsh is one […]
Who says EU policies are not joined up? Last week the European Commission cheerfully announced it was abandoning standards for 26 different types of fruit and vegetables. Commissioner for Agriculture Mariann Fischer Boel heralded “a new dawn for the curvy cucumber and the knobbly carrot”. Finally one of the myths […]
It has taken me a while to notice the news, but London MEP Robert Evans is the latest to announce that he will not be standing at the next election. More can be found at Mary Honeyball’s blog. I’m sad to see Robert leave the EP – he has always […]
There’s a phrase in Swedish – a dagens ilandsproblem – which means a problem so modern and bourgeois that only people in developed societies are confronted with it, and even posing it as a problem is rather, well, laughable. But that is essentially the issue that has been bugging me […]
An article in yesterday’s Observer caught my eye – the argument that the UK needs a boom in its production of fruit and veg for a multitude of reasons, notably to reduce reliance on oil derivative fertilisers and the need to combat climate change. Reading the article further underlined my […]
I’ve not been having the best of times with technology recently: My internet connection at home keeps failing, and the service centre cannot help me out The modem router I’m obliged to use for my internet connection is supposed to give excellent costs at a rock bottom price, but as […]
I’m a human, so I want to be friends with humans on Facebook. I think I’m probably not alone on this. Yet what should an organisation do if it wants to establish a Facebook presence? Increasingly organisations of which I am a member are creating Facebook profiles, as if the […]
I’m sat in a café on Upper Street in Islington trying to blog. I’m ‘connected’ to the internet with a newly purchased Option Icon 225 USB dongle, connecting with Orange 3G. Only the pace here is slooooow, despite a signal strength of 3 out of 6 bars. I can just […]
